Ben Vinson III

Ben Vinson III is the Dean of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University and the incoming Provost of Case Western Reserve University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Americas, a quarterly journal dedicated to Latin American History. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Latin America Section of the Oxford Bibliographies Online project. Ben Vinson was formerly a vice-dean and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has taught at Penn State and Barnard College. He serves on several organizational boards, including the National Humanities Center and the National Humanities Alliance. His PhD is from Columbia University; his undergraduate degree is from Dartmouth College. He was born in Rapid City, South Dakota.